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‘Venus was once Earth-like but climate change made it uninhabitable’!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the usual garbage put out by climate activists and is not possible.
The Venus atmosphere is 96% carbon dioxide, 3% nitrogen, and 1% other gasses, plus significant amounts of sulphuric acid. It has a crushing carbon dioxide atmosphere over 90 times as thick as Earth’s, and the average surface temperature is 464°C. It is so volcanic that the whole surface is only an average age of 500 million years. A day is about 8 months long!
To go from an ‘Earth type’ atmosphere to today’s hellhole it would need hundreds of billions of tons of carbon to come from ‘somewhere’, and twice that amount of oxygen. It is far more likely that Earth started with a similar atmosphere to Venus and life, particularly stromatolites, modified it to become the atmosphere we know today. Venus never had life to modify the atmosphere so today the atmosphere is close to how it started,
Note that it is thermodynamically impossible to ‘trap’ heat. Every atom in the universe is constantly radiating heat trying to get down to -273C. The only thing preventing this is that they are receiving heat from their surroundings.
Zelensky may be ousted – will he care.
Zelensky was elected on the promise of implementing the Minsk accords. When it was pointed out he would not live long enough to do this he became an ultra-nationalist.
He is an actor and this was just a new role.
He now has over 30 million dollars worth of property in the US, Israel and Egypt, and who knows how much cash he has squirrelled away.
I would think he will have enough to live comfortably, unless he is killed as a false flag operation to be blamed on Russia!
Disney
I thought that shareholders voted for the Board members at the AGM, but perhaps that is just the UK. Certainly the shareholders must have some say so they must be okay with Disney’s wokeness.
Seth Rich
The emails were time-stamped as they were copied so the download speed could be calculated. This was far quicker than the internet link and consistent with a local USB port.
It was demonstrable that the Russians [or anyone else] could not have copied the emails over the internet and that Seth Rich was most likely the culprit.
It strikes me that there will only be one candidate in the US presidential election, and that is Trump.
People can vote FOR Trump or AGAINST Trump. There is really no other choice.
That is why Biden can garner so many votes, but very few will be voting FOR Biden. He could be replaced with a block of wood [Which may actually get more votes!]
One of the worst things the Catholic church was to include the ‘old testament’ as part of the bible.
It has nothing to do with Christianity and can be used to justify very un-Christian things – like okaying genocide because the [Jewish] old testament says it’s God’s will.
“Israel seems holding back on an invasion of the Gaza Strip for fear that Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement will open a second front in the north.”
Not sure if this is true. With no power, water or food then the longer the delay the weaker the opposition will be. Why should they risk Israeli lives when they can sit back and watch Palestinians die, especially after bombing the hospitals and destroying residential buildings.
It seems that Israel intends to empty Gaza by any means. Egypt will be the ‘bad guy’ if they don’t let hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in. Any remaining in Gaza will be killed.
You have to be suspicious. Netanyahu has a map of Israel which no longer shows the Palestinian enclaves. Hamas has a surprisingly successful attack. Israel uses this as justification for clearing out the Gaza strip. Neat!
I keep thinking of an alien in Larry Niven’s book ‘Ringworld’ [A Kzin]. He was a diplomat for a very aggressive race and his official title was ‘Speaker-to-Animals’!
It seems to me a very apt job description for many Western ‘diplomats’. They certainly give the impression they are speaking to inferior beings. They do not feel they need to understand the mindset of those they are speaking to. It is a form of White Supremacy by the elites and neocons, not necessarily the general population.
Hamas is already widely described as being ‘animals’, vermin who can be exterminated without any guilt. By extension all Palestinians are ‘animals’ and have no rights to be treated as humans.
From the way Netanyahu is talking he wants to change Gaza from a concentration camp to an extermination camp. I am sure that by now more Palestinian civilians have died than Israelis were killed by Hamas. The question is how many Palestinian deaths will assuage this bloodlust – ten thousand? A hundred thousand? A million? All of them?
While Western MSM has largely ignored the bombing of Palestinians in the past now it is actively cheering the Israelis on! The question is whether the Israeli retribution becomes excessive.
Already condemnation of Hamas is not universal, even in the West. If Israel goes too far it could cause problems for them. Hezbollah may feel the need to become fully involved. They have thousands of battle hardened troops, and thousands of missiles and at least some are fitted with accurate guidance systems.
Also there are now significant numbers of muslims in most Western countries. This issue could prompt them into terrorist campaigns. International relations with Israel could become strained. If Iran becomes involved, through choice or action by others, then potential fallout could be drastic.
Israel’s attitude to the Palestinians makes me think of the Klu Klux Klan’s attitude to African Americans.
There seems to be two different thoughts on the attack on Israel.
One is that the attack was allowed to happen. Some think of Gaza as a concentration camp, or even an extermination camp. This attack may be used to justify more on the extermination side for years to come.
The other view is that Hamas actually overcame all the Israeli defenses and the ‘win’ was genuine. If so then it seems Hamas is using intelligence more than bravado. In the past they have achieved minimal damage and suffered large retribution.
The question is what happens next?
Do Hamas have the resources to carry out further attacks? We are in an era where small cheap weapons can destroy large expensive ones. If not then Israel will spend some time bombing Hamas [and any nearby civilians].
If Hamas have enough resources to carry out further attacks then it depends on how effective any damage on Israel is. They have missiles, but they are only as good as their accuracy. Iran seems to have developed accurate guidance systems which could make the missiles more destructive, IF Hamas have these on their missiles.
The worst possibility is that it spreads to a larger war involving Iran, Lebanon and Syria. Israel is already claiming Iran was involved in this attack. Iran could block oil through the Straits of Hormuz, causing problems globally but mainly for the West.
It could be another step on the way to a World War : NATO vs BRICS.
One Nazi recruited by the US after the war was Reinhard Gehlen. He operated a Nazi spy network working in Russia and he was employed to continue this, ending up being the sole source of info about Russia for the CIA.
He often exaggerated claims about Russia, particularly Russia’s nuclear capabilities, to such an extent that some say it was the main reason for the ‘cold war’. It was only when U2 aircraft started flying over Russia that the US realised how weak Russia was in this respect. By this time the ‘cold war’ was too useful so it was never made public.
The ‘Cold war’, COVID and ‘Climate Change’ are all excuses to impose dictatorial powers but are based on exaggeration and lies.
KARMA : Gadaffi kept his promise of not letting Libya be used as a route for migrants heading for Europe.
“..78% of Ukrainian adults see Zelensky as “directly responsible” for Kiev’s corruption problem..”
This does not make sense!
He has only been around for a few years and the corruption has been around for a LOT longer. Corruption seems to be a way of life in Ukraine. If they can get away with it then they do it. The influx from the West has certainly supercharged it. Wherever corruption is possible then it will happen.
What is sad is that with Ukraine’s resources the population should be relatively well off, but any wealth has been sucked up.
Ukrainians who end in Russian territory may be lucky enough to escape this culture of plunder.
9/11 – my take
In 1996 there was a movie called ‘The Long Kiss Goodnight’. The film revolves around a CIA plot to create a ‘terrorist’ incident killing thousands which would then be blamed on Islamic terrorists. They referred to it as a ‘fundraiser’, a way to generate increased funding for the CIA.
9/11 seems like the same idea but was contracted out.
What makes me suspicious is that when four aircraft were hijacked at the same time there was so little reaction. No fighters were scrambled to shadow the aircraft.
When a hijacked aircraft hits a high profile target like the twin towers then it is obviously deliberate. The authorities had an hour to intercept the second aircraft using fighters, but they didn’t bother. The pentagon aircraft was even later but still was not intercepted. The fourth failed to reach its target [Whitehouse?] probably due to action by the passengers, not by interception.
It is this inaction which makes me suspicious. Certainly it provided an excuse for punitive wars in the middle east and the setting up of a police state in the US. Very convenient.
[New York is full of helicopters, including Chinooks. I do not know why they were not used to ferry people off the roof in a kind of Dunkirk action]
AUG31st : Over 1,600 Scientists Sign ‘No Climate Emergency’ Declaration. International scientists have jointly signed a declaration dismissing the existence of a climate crisis and insisting that carbon dioxide is beneficial to Earth, contrary to the popular alarmist narrative.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/over-1600-scientists-sign-no-climate-emergency-declaration
The only way I can see the Ukraine conflict ending is complete capitulation, like Berlin at the end of WWII. I see this happening at the point Ukraine has no effective army or armaments and has no power to resist.
Russia will take over the Ukraine government for a while. Russia will say which parts of Ukraine will revert to Russia and then will decide what to do with rest of Ukraine.
They could possible let Poland, Hungary, etc. take over parts of Ukraine which were historically theirs BUT only as a protectorate rather than be absorbed into the mother countries. Also these protectorates will be demilitarised with the promise that any military installations will be destroyed without warning. I favour the Ukrainians voting to say which protectorate they want to belong to and the information being used to define the borders.
For what is left of Ukraine Russia will need to organise elections. I would expect them to seek out
the neo-nazis, imprisoning the worst and executing those guilty of warcrimes. The rump Ukraine would be a Russian protectorate.I think that something like the above would be the only way for Russia to achieve all its’ objectives.
For some reason the situation in Ukraine reminds of the fairytale where Russia is the three little pigs in their brick house and Kiev is the wolf huffing and puffing and failing to blow their house down!
At some point Ukraine will have no effective military. They will not be able to stop any Russian advance. I think Russia must take Odessa. It would connect them to Transnistra and Moldova, plus it makes Ukraine land-locked and easier to control.
Being taken over by Russia is probably a benefit. I read that Ukraine’s resources means that it should be a fairly wealthy country, but the oligarchs have drained away all the wealth leaving poverty. It will also mean they will not have to repay all the debts that Ukraine has racked up.
There was a report on RT a few months ago where Lukashenko expressed worry about the build-up of Polish troops across the border from Belarus. He feared an invasion.
Since then Russia has sited nuclear missiles in Belarus, moved Wagner troops there, and I think they declared that an attack on Belarus was an attack on Russia.
Poland made the first move and Russia responded.
This is what makes me suspicious of Prigozhin’s revolt. The end result was that Wagner troops ended up where Russia wanted them, it flushed out some quislings, and Prigozhin may have received CIA money.
Against that is the story that the Wagner group downed several Russian fighters. This is slightly suspicious as Russian fighters do not seem so weak against MANPADs or their effect in Ukraine would be greatly reduced. I would like to know how much hard evidence exists.
Prigozhin was not jailed and had at least one meeting with Putin afterwards. The Wagner group seems quite useful for Russia as it means they can put troops in countries where putting Russian military would be a problem.
In short, I can’t see this being a hit by the Russian government.
Russian electronics
Many years ago a Russian pilot defected to Japan in his fighter plane. Western experts sniggered when they found the aircraft used vacuum tubes. Then they realised it made the aircraft proof against EMP!
F16s
If they are the property of the Ukrainian military is it valid to destroy them while they are still in Denmark and Holland?
If they are located in Ukraine the Russians will take strenuous measures to destroy them on the ground. I think there was a suggestion that they be based in Poland and flown in to Ukraine! Anything wrong with that?
An airforce base must have large amounts of fuel, either in tanks or underground. I was wondering whether a Kinzhal missile hitting such storage would vapourise the fuel so quickly it had no time to immediately atch fire, creating an air-fuel mix. This would create an incredibly large thermobaric bomb possibly large enough to destroy the whole base!
I have problems with the universe.
The main problem is that it can’t exist – it can never have started. The next problem is that it can’t not exist! There must be SOMETHING to occupy space.
One solution is that it came from something external. The last thing I read was about sheets of energy called branes, and a new universe is created whenever they touch. This helps to explain the ‘Goldilocks’ nature of the universe which is ‘just right’. There are many parameters which if they were slightly different would mean the universe would die quickly or would mean life would be impossible. If there are a large number of universes then statistically one like ours will appear.
That makes it worse. What created these branes? How did they come into existence. Also, logically, outside our universe must be literally infinite, which is impossible.
The idea of god or gods is useful as it means you don’t to wonder about the nature of reality too much – it’s just the way it was made. It saves brain damage!
Tulsi Gabbard’s experience with Maui is not unique. I think back to New Orleans after Katrina.
A guy with a rowboat rescued over 100 people from rooftops because there was no army presence, no rescue helicopters, no help at all.
Police were deployed, but only inside stores to stop those desperate for food from getting any – they would be treated as looters.
Refugees were holed up in a stadium for weeks before it was finally admitted that there had always been a usable road out of Orleans.
The failing levee was built by the US military. A picture shows the concrete blocks were rectanguloid, no attempt at interlocking shapes. They were only as strong as the cement holding them together.
It probably did not help that the majority of the population was black.
I found the whole thing disgusting. The richest country in the world with the biggest military did not lift a finger to help.
The West promised Gaddafi he would never be overthrown if he agreed not to build nuclear weapons.
However he went on to commit various ‘sins’ : He sold Libya’s gas rights to Gazprom; he threatened to sell oil in Euros instead of dollars; finally, the worst, he promised to create a gold-backed currency for MENA.
The end!
One promise he kept was to ensure that Libya was not used for refugees and migrants to travel to Europe. I suppose this is the Karma as they are now destabilising many European countries.
There was a report a few months ago where Lukashenko expressed worry about the build-up of Polish troops across the border from Belarus.
Since then Russia has sited nuclear missiles in Belarus, moved Wagner troops there, and I think they declared that an attack on Belarus was an attack on Russia.
Poland made the first move and Russia has responded.
[posting this failed yesterday so trying again]
“Did the Russians really have a choice? Or were they forced to invade?”
Merkel and Hollande have admitted that they only signed the Minsk accord to give time for 600,000 Ukrainian troops to be recruited, trained and armed. They thought this would be enough to take on Russia. It shows that it was always the intention of the West to have a war between Ukraine and Russia and NOT to bring peace to the Donbas.
Before Russia invaded the Ukrainian army had built up a force of 150,000 troops on the borders of the Donbas. The fear in Russia was that they would invade the Donbas in a bout of ethnic cleansing much like Georgia tried in South Ossetia.
I think the final straw was when Zelensky threatened to create nuclear weapons, and they had the means to do so [at the time].
After Russia invaded [as planned by the West] the idea was that sanctions would destroy the Russian economy, Putin would be deposed, and the US could install a puppet like Yeltsin who would be willing to sell Russian resources cheaply [estimated at over 81 trillion dollars!]
It did not go to plan.
The ‘Moonwalking octopus’ is actually a robot used in the BBC documentary series ‘Spy In The Ocean’.
They made quite passable robots of a whale, shark, cuttlefish, octopus, etc. Worth watching it if you can.
The Bizarro world of climate change
CO2 is essential to life on Earth. Even the recent modest increases of CO2 has lead to a greening of the Earth so it is no surprise that the numbers of phytoplankton has been increasing.
The article states ‘Phytoplankton, which forms the base of many ocean food chains, is crucial to the health of ocean ecosystems.’ They form the base of the foodchain which sustains almost all life in the ocean and are responsible for replenishing most of the oxygen in the atmosphere by absorbing CO2.
It sounds like a good thing – the basic food supply is increasing, but :
“These are not ultra, massive ecosystem-destroying changes, they may be subtle,” said Cael. “But this gives us an additional piece of evidence that human activity is likely affecting large parts of the global biosphere in a way that we haven’t been able to understand.”
So the ‘scientists’ are saying it must be bad and somehow we are responsible!
These people get paid!
AMMUNITION
For the most part NATO weapons have not been used in battle. On the occasions they have the designated enemy has had inferior weapons. I would have put China in this category when Obama’s ‘pivot to Asia’ began.
Weapons systems can be created, bought in large numbers, and never see action before they are replaced. Because of this there seemed no point in producing ammunition for an extended conflict so when munitions are required in large quantities there are no manufacturing facilities able to comply in a timely fashion. It will take years just to supply the small war in Ukraine.
US weapons in particular are very complex which means they often require maintenance. Up to 30% could be out of action because of this. I think I read that an F35 will need maintenance after 10 hours flying. The West was amazed when Russia deployed fighters to Syria and they flew 24/7, just refueling, rearming and changing pilots.
Russia has always been aware that it is ALWAYS a target so it needed weapons which will work AND will have enough ammunition for an extended conflict. A very different mindset from the West where weapons are more for posing.
Another aspect of modern warfare is the David/Goliath thing where expensive equipment can be destroyed by cheap missiles and UAVs. A multibillion dollar aircraft carrier can be destroyed by a few million dollar missiles. Fighters and tanks can be destroyed by hand-held missiles.
Finally, smaller countries have developed advanced, and possibly superior, weapons. Iran has developed missiles with pinpoint accuracy, Turkey’s Bayraktar UAVs have proved devastating in conflicts, Russia has had a stream of new advanced weapons tested in conflict, and China is modernising its weapons systems as quickly as possible.
NATO has shiny weapons with minimal munitions – good for threats and posturing but not good enough for conflict.
One final thought – if Russia attacked a NATO country, Poland say, would all the other NATO countries REALLY risk nuclear annihilation by joining in the conflict? It is a question which may need to be answered soon!
Saharan dust : The Amazon rain forest is constantly losing nutrients. I watched a documentary that explained that Saharan dust is critical to replenishing these nutrients.
In this documentary it was mentioned that the dust failed to arrive – it landed north of the Amazon. No big deal – the rain forest has obviously been around for a very long time so has already survived this kind of problem.
‘Why the Ukraine Conflict Will Unravel NATO’
On a BBC comedy panel show called QI one question was ‘can chickens hatch a nuclear bomb’. This referred to a UK plan in the 1960s. The idea was that if Russia invaded several nuclear bombs would be buried in Germany timed to explode after the Russians had arrived. They thought the electronics would be too cold to function properly but calculated that the body heat of a chicken would be sufficient to provide enough warmth. So these buried bombs would each contain a chicken with a ten day food supply!
My point is that there was no regard for the German population, or Germany, which would be covered in radiaoctive debris. It shows that Europe and its’ people were always regarded as expendable, and still are.
NATO is purely a shield for the US, although the UK may feel it has a special status. European countries are simply ‘useful idiots’. In any post WWIII science fiction story there may be survivors in the US and Russia but Europe ceases to exist! It is a killing ground, a buffer between Russia and the US.
‘the US ‘aided’ Europe during the two World Wars on a more or less commercial basis’ : Almost ALL the gold the US owns was British payment for WW1 and WW2.
In 2020 it was said that COVID used ACE2 receptors to infect the body. The Chinese [and Japanese] have the highest number of these with Europeans having the least. As a bioweapon it seems to be aimed at the Chinese. Now we have the ‘furin cleave docking site’ as a point of infection with Europeans being at highest risk!
This is highly suspicious. It coincides with the idea that the Wuhan lab was DEFINITELY the source and it was a bioweapon aimed at the Europeans, even though there is evidence it was ‘at large’ well before December 2019. Is it science or propaganda?
TRANS
I have a friend who is a transvestite. Although he is now over 70 he still has no idea why dressing as a woman has such an impact on him. He never went to work ‘dressed up’ and has kept it secret from his kids.
At weekends he often goes to gatherings of like-minded people. He is not interested in ‘normal’ male conversation and hoped they would be interesting but for the most part they are normal blokes dressed as women. The vast majority are tranvestites with a small number of transexuals. He says the transexuals he has talked to ‘have problems’.
The point is that they are NOT ‘trans activists’, so who is?
It seems to me that most ‘trans activists’ are not themselves trans but feel the need to promote the idea of changing sex. I would expect for the most part ‘trans’ will be male and cross-dressing would be enough, very few would consider a ‘sex-change’.
There seems to be two levels of ‘sex change’. One just involves breasts – women lose them and men gain them, but their reproductive organs are unchanged. The other type of ‘sex change’ involves genital changes to better mimic the other sex. In both cases it involves taking hormones for life. These operations are so drastic that it should be the last resort but often it seems to be the first resort with little regard being given to the quality of life for the victims.
I object to the misuse of ‘hate speech’ for just disagreeing with some aspects of trans. To me ‘hate speech’ is the Nazis in 1930s Germany – people who TRULY hate.
I object to the word ‘transphobic’ as it means fear of trans people, but more often they look ludicrous and do not cause ‘fear’.
What is odd is how much this tiny minority is catered to by governments and others, usually at the expense of many majority groups.
It DOES make sense if this whole trans thing is a WEF style ploy to intimidate the majority and take away their freedoms.
Many people are now afraid to express their opinions of woke/trans issues. The Bud Light fiasco gave the public a way of showing their anonymous disapproval – simply don’t buy the product!
If 44 percent of millennials (between ages 25-34) favour criminal charges for people who use the wrong pronouns [but believe shop-lifters should be let free] it is abnormal and shows the level of brainwashing that has been achieved. This is just the forerunner of things to come.
Has COVID ‘science’ been ‘re-written’?
In 2020 it was said that COVID used ACE2 receptors to infect the body. The Chinese [and Japanese] have the highest number of these with Europeans having the least. As a bioweapon it seems to be aimed at the Chinese. Now we have the ‘furin cleave docking site’ as a point of infection with Europeans being at highest risk!
This is highly suspicious. It coincides with the idea that the Wuhan lab was DEFINITELY the source and it was a bioweapon aimed at the Europeans.
But COVID appeared to be ‘at large’ before December 2019 :
September 2019
– Barcelona finds COVID in sewage water samples taken in this month
– Two prestigious universities from the UK and US did independent studies tracing COVID from Wuhan to cases in southern China occurring in September 2019
– In the US many elderly people died with strange symptoms in September 2019, which in retrospect could be explained if they died from COVIDOctober 2019
– Italian researchers examined blood samples taken in October 2019 from elderly male cancer patients and 8% tested positive for COVID
December 2019
– In South America COVID was found in a sewage sample taken in December 2019
Of note is that Barcelona detected COVID in a sewage sample taken in MARCH 2019. I think it could very well be valid. The average age of death in the UK is 82 and it is unlikely that deaths in this group would be investigated so COVID could have circulated unrecognised for a long time. For most others it would be a bad case of flu at worst and over 99% would not be infected anyway.
If all the evidence is valid it suggest that COVID was circulating in early 2019. It spread around the world gradually growing in cases until it was identified by China as a disease.
I did read of a project to trace the origins of COVID using sewage samples from around the world. That was some time ago and I have seen absolutely nothing about any progress they made. Suspicious!
Russia has built a strong defensive anvil and US/NATO is forcing Ukraine to smash their forces against this anvil.
I am not sure what Russia intends to do. I would have expected it to take over the Odessa region so there is a corridor to Transnistria giving the possibility of restoring democracy to Moldavia.
It could be that Russia is waiting for the Ukrainian forces to completely destroy themselves and then take over Odessa with little resistance.
I wonder what a survey of Ukrainians would show if asked what country they would like
to belong to : Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Hungary, etc.It was sad to read that Ukraine should be a relatively rich country but corruption has sucked any wealth generated.
Cluster munitions : How many will be fired at Russian troops and how many will be fired at civilians in the Donbas and Crimea?
‘Zero Amish children diagnosed with cancer, diabetes or autism’
This is an important point, particularly with regards to autism. It should be possible to correlate vaccine data with autism, possibly even singling out individual vaccines as potentially harmful. Not everyone has had every vaccine.
Who would fund this? Certainly not Big Pharma or large medical organisations. I can’t see it being done even though it should be straight forward. Even if, say, a wealthy individual would fund it would they be allowed access to the data?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkTV3HMXwAMOPBJ?format=jpg&name=small
There is no such thing as ‘greenhouse gases’!
If you look at hot deserts the temperature can drop by 30 centigrade or more overnight, every night, in 12 hours or less. Absolutely no signs of any greenhouse effect whatsoever. It simply does not exist.
This would be true over the whole Earth if there was no other influence, but there is : water and water vapour. This acts as an insulator smoothing out maximum and minimum temperatures, clouds in particular.
Look at the Moon – surface temperatures range from 100C to minus 150C. It is obvious ‘something’ is keeping the Earth cooler and warmer than these extremes.
The Milankovitch Cycles can be used to predict global climate with some accuracy, but moderated by the current solar cycle and oceanic oscillations. All ‘predictions’ by the ‘man-made [insert name of disaster here]’ crowd have always failed.
Bad weather was called an ‘act of God’, and the new religion now calls it ‘act of Man’. These zealots will never accept any science as evidence that they are wrong.
Incidentally in the 1950s it was shown that the ‘greenhouse effect’ does not exist in greenhouses. Any warming is just isolation from the outside environment and is equally true of solid brick buildings or any form of shelter.
The only ‘greenhouse effect’ I can think of is at the centre of the Sun. Hydrogen is opaque to light which is why it takes over 100,000 years for light to travel from the centre of the Sun to the surface!
Before the 2014 coup in Ukraine it was illegal to sell farmland to foreigners. That was obviously changed and Blackrock and others are taking advantage of this BUT what if these lands end up in Russian territory [or Polish or Hungarian]. Will they still own it?
While I am sure all the loans to Ukraine are being put to good use [!?] who will pay it back? Not Russia! Also if Poland and Hungary do acquire their old territories then not them either.
It has been obvious that Ukraine has been attacking the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant for quite a while [although the IAEA has ‘no idea’ who could be carrying out these attacks!]
The US is a long way from Zaporozhye and would not care less if they succeeded, actually they would probably be elated. They may even have helped.
The EU is NOT a long way from Ukraine but their leaders have NEVER tried to stop Ukraine carrying out these attacks, even Poland, which would be affected the most. Even Orban has not made a statement about it.
How pathetic, craven, and venal are these leaders. They have been fully okay with the suffering of their people to sustain this war [except Orban]. There seems to be no depths they will not stoop to. They have seen their economies suffer unnecessarily until now I don’t see a way they can recover quickly, or at all.
It is noteworthy that the last three European elections voted in right wing parties, and France and Germany are moving in this direction.
